Code protection(MSIL encryption, licensing) for .NET4/VS 2010 (C#)? What software can you recommend?

Please don't list any search results from Google. I need to hear from people actually using certain products what they think.

DeployLX from Xheo. Sounded good but found some pretty bad reviews about this product and their support.CryptoLicensing from LogicNP Software. Seems to have all features needed but their webpage doesn't exactly give much confidence.

As I can not test the end result (encryption) myself so I have to rely on that it works. I have a small budget that should be enough for good software intended for this use.
Suggestions?

Statistically you are wasting your money. If advanced protections like SecuROM which go as far as to run the application in a virtualized sandbox with silent triggers that are integrated to the application code are cracked instantly on the release day, some lame generic .NET encryption doesn't stand a chance. There are generic dumpers for every one of these point and click .exe protectors.

I am more looking to protect the code from average Joe that want to peek at the code or against simple copying & ussing without licensing. It's not meant for protecting against the "scene". Obsfucators don't do enough in my opinion.
By the way, licensing does not apply, I am looking for protection of code only by encryption. No built-in licensing needed.

If licensing is not required there is almost nothing to be gained by encryption of the code. No one but a hardcore hacker will be able to reverse anything better than the standard .NET Obfuscator back to intelligible code.

You have to buy it for the string encryption feature. However standard practice is to use basic stream encryption on all your resource files to prevent hex editing. That's hardly an issue that should force you to pay for encryption software.

If you need to read values from a configuration file you can use a cryptostream with a hard-coded key to read and write to the file. There's little use in trying to do something more advanced than hard-coding the key as they key can be dumped no matter what.http://www.codeproject.com/KB/security/using_cryptostream.aspx

All hard-coded strings should ideally be from a resource file anyway so you can use stream encryption, but if you insist on keeping them in the code then you can probably decrypt them all at application launch. Use any of the built in .NET encryption functions.

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